George Jackson (conductor)

George Jackson
Birth name George Jackson
Born (1987-07-15) July 15, 1987
Hanwell, UK
Genres Classical
Occupation(s) Conductor
Instruments Violin and Piano
Website www.georgejackson.net

Winner of the 2015 Aspen Conducting Prize,[1] George Jackson came to international attention as a last-minute replacement, conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Austrian premiere of Michael Jarrell’s Ombres.[2] An assistant and protégé of both Yves Abel and Robert Spano, George has worked on opera productions across the world, most recently at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Opéra National de Paris, and the Aspen Opera Theater Center. During the 2014-15 season, George conducted the RTÉ Concert Orchestra,[3] Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Sibiu State Philharmonic (Romania), and Vienna Chamber Orchestra,[4] and also premiered Irene Galindo Quero's opera A campo abierto at Madrid's Operadhoy Festival.[5]

In 2015, he made his debut in Italy on tour with the Haydn Orchestra di Bolzano e Trento and spends 2016 at Aspen as the festival's Assistant and Guest Conductor.[6]

In 2010, George founded the Vienna-based Speculum Musicae Opera Company, conducting new productions of Pergolesi's La serva padrona and Charpentier's David et Jonathas.[7] He has also conducted performances with the Pro Arte Orchestra Vienna of Die Zauberflöte, Der Freischütz, La Traviata, Fidelio, Turandot, Der Fliegende Holländer and La Bohème.

George participated in international master classes, where his teachers included Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kurt Masur and David Robertson. An alumnus of the conservatories of Vienna, Weimar, and Trinity College Dublin, George furthered his studies at the Lucerne Festival Academy, Dartington Festival, Bayreuth Festival and the Aspen Music Festival, where he was awarded the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize and the David A. Karetsky Memorial Fellowship. A prizewinner at the 2012 'Jeunesses Musicales' Conducting Competition in Bucharest, George is a Help Musicians UK 'Emerging Excellence' Artist,[8] and has received numerous scholarships from organisations including the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Tillett Trust, Janeczek Foundation, Irish Arts Council, Richard Wagner Foundation, and the Roderick Brydon Memorial Trust. He is currently a member of the Deutsche Bank Stiftung's 'Akademie Musiktheater heute' scheme for young opera professionals[9] and also holds the Sir Charles Mackerras Fellowship in Conducting at London's Trinity Laban.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "George Jackson". [Aspen Music Festival].
  2. ↑ "George Jackson: ein Maestro, geboren für's Dirigentenpult". [Allesklassik].
  3. ↑ "Lunchtime Concert". [RTÉ].
  4. ↑ "Orchesterkonzert: Öffentliche Diplomprüfung Orchesterdirigieren". [Radiokulturhaus].
  5. ↑ "Sinergias". [Operadhoy].
  6. ↑ "Concerto Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento". Cles.
  7. ↑ "Interview with British Conductor George Jackson". [Smorgzone].
  8. ↑ "George Jackson". Help Musicians UK.
  9. ↑ "Stipendiaten". Deutsche Bank.
  10. ↑ "Trinity Laban selects outstanding talent as Junior Fellows for 2015/16". Trinity Laban.

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